Settlement Type: | City |
Official Name: | Bilytske |
Native Name: | Білицьке |
Pushpin Map: | Ukraine Donetsk Oblast#Ukraine |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ukraine |
Subdivision Type1: | Oblast |
Subdivision Name1: | Donetsk Oblast |
Subdivision Type2: | Raion |
Subdivision Name2: | Pokrovsk Raion |
Population Total: | 7764 |
Population As Of: | 2022 |
Established Title: | Founded |
Coordinates: | 48.4°N 48°W |
Subdivision Type3: | Hromada |
Subdivision Name3: | Dobropillia urban hromada |
Bilytske (pronounced as /uk/;) is a city in Dobropillia urban hromada, Donetsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine. Population:
During the Second World War, from November 1941 to 1943, the settlement was occupied by Axis troops.
In December 1966, the urban-type settlement became a city.[1]
In 1980s the basis of the economy was coal mining.[2] In January 1989, the population of the city was 11.6 thousand people[3]
In January 2013 the population was 8,691 people.[4]
Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:[5]